SERBIAN AND ROMANIAN DAILY NEWSPAPERS ABOUT CHILD ABUSE PROBLEM

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to research the way that Serbian and Romanian daily newspapers inform about child abuse problem. The main corpus will consist in articles published in the Serbian daily newspaper Blic and in Romanian daily newspaper Adevărul, from Janary 1^st 2011 to January 31^st 2012.

Child abuse is a phenomenon that integrates all activities, events, situations, conditions or behaviour that hurt child`s integrity and harm its development. Child abuse involves: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglecting and child exploitation

Having all that in mind, it is the intention of the author to analyse texts about this issue according to the Codex that reffers to text length, journalistic genre, authorship, cause of reporting, visual presentation, location, topic, subject, object, value context, text title, in order to research how the selected media present the event and what is similar and what is different in the topic that is being researched.

Although in Romanian daily newspaper Adevărul more texts about child abuse problem were published than in Blic (40:25), according to the results it could be said that there were detected similarities, but also dissimilarities. Similar in both media are results related to journalistic genre, cause of reporting, visual presentation, topic, value context and text title; dissimilarities could be detected related to text lenght, authorship and location.